Just seen on the news that twelve companies including Morrisons, Subway and Nestlé have signed up to reduce the amount of saturated fat in foods, citing the link to heart disease. My view is that for sure this is something…

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My wife was telling one of her workmates my story how I had lost three and a half stone and was the same weight at nearly 50 as I was when I was 25. She replied “I’m not doing that,…

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I am usually sceptical at adverts, would much rather work things out for myself. I have never tried probiotics although I like yoghurt, because it sounded to me too much like health food. Let me digress. I am a big…

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So far in the story, I had decided to stop drinking coca cola, and count calories at the same time monitoring how different foods made me feel, mainly how long I could go without feeling hungry. It quickly became apparent…

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The next thing I did was download a free calorie counter app for my iPhone 4. I downloaded the free DailyBurn (www.dailyburn.com) from the AppStore, set myself up on a low carb diet, and used the food database in this…

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I think it was Jan 2011 when I watched this programme on the BBC. The 10 things were:- Don’t skip meals. If you skip meals, you crave higher calorie foods. Use smaller plates. Count your calories. Don’t blame your metabolism.…

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